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Reymma RJ Savoy Since: Feb, 2015
RJ Savoy
Sep 17th 2022 at 5:58:38 PM •••

I'm removing these:

  • Broken Bird: An understatement for her. A woman who was broken sometime in the past suffered many self-esteem & emotional issues, never truly healed, and was eventually lost to her demons.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Her entire life is a living hell, even after her career in the WWE.
  • How the Mighty Have Fallen: To say Joanie Laurer fell to pieces after she was released from the WWE would be a severe understatement. Disastrous public appearances, increased drug use, and a self-destructive relationship with Sean Waltman utterly ruined her and her reputation. While she got some of her life back together afterwards, for years she was still considered somewhat of a train wreck — making news for accusing Triple H of hitting her at one point and then making threats to both him and Stephanie in a YouTube video. Not to mention her appearance at TNA, where it was made clear just what the excessive plastic surgery had done to her, and that she had downright embarrassing ring rust to compound it.
  • Hypocritical Humor: She and HHH taking part in DX's parody of The Corporation, a faction they would both separately join.
  • I Was Quite a Looker: Depends on what period you're talking about. Inverted around the time of her Playboy cover where she was at her finest, and played straight after her excessive plastic surgery.
  • Progressively Prettier: Chyna when she debuted in 1997. Compare that to Chyna after the plastic surgery. When she debuted alongside Triple H, lots of viewers were probably thinking, "Who's that big, ugly man?" It should be noted that she's gone both ways with this, she started off somewhat mannish-looking, then refined her looks through plastic surgery, and becoming quite pretty, posing for Playboy and being considered very attractive. Unfortunately, she kept getting plastic surgery, and between that and losing a lot of her muscle tone (making her parts that were surgically enhanced for her muscular physique out of proportion), she's since approached what a few people have called a plastic train-wreck. And then there are some of the things that steroid abuse has done to her body that are somewhat... offputting.
  • Redemption Equals Death: A real-life case of this, as she was mending fences with Triple H and WWE around the time that she died.
  • Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: May be the saddest case to the point of qualifying for the trope image. Though she was with Paul (HHH) for four years, things were uneven. While she seemed to love him, he's implied he settled for her during their time together until he grew up, started thinking about a real life, and eventually met Stephanie, as he notes on Sway's podcast. The podcast included, he's routinely praised Stephanie as the best woman in the world. Chyna has had numerous shoots on him over the years, in addition to vids where she's clearly under the influence that show she never truly moved on or came to acceptable terms with what happened. At one point, she even made death threats to him and Stephanie.
  • Vocal Dissonance: Considering her size, strength, and toughness, her rather high, soft, nasal voice can be a little surprising. She also had a slight lisp which makes her almost a Distaff Counterpart to Mike Tyson.

For the simple reason that they are troping the real person and not the kayfabe persona. If any of these were part of her performance in the ring, they can be added back on that basis, but make it clear that it was framed as such.

Also this because Gag Boobs require being played for comedy:

  • Gag Boobs: Zig-zagged. According to her autobiography, when she got her first set of implants, she realized that since she's 5'10" with a very muscular frame, it would be somewhat logical for her to go with a larger size. However, they were still fairly underwhelming on her frame, so after one of them ruptured during a match, she went back under the knife to repair them. During this, she apparently became the model for a line of larger implants she called the "Chyna 2000s," which were specifically made for female bodybuilders and large-framed women. They looked fairly proportionate during her time in wrestling; however, since she left, she slimmed down somewhat and her implants started to look oversized.

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
Sazaika Since: Nov, 2009
Oct 23rd 2020 at 10:58:19 PM •••

I'm sorry, but is there really a need to discuss a dead woman's body and pornography career?

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